What do the parenthetical numbers in the Kernel.org Git docs reference?
For example: git(1) Manual Page git-add(1) git-am(1)
What do the parenthetical numbers in the Kernel.org Git docs reference? For example: git(1)
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What do the parenthetical numbers in the Kernel.org Git docs reference?
For example: git(1) Manual Page git-add(1) git-am(1)
The numbers refer to sections of the Unix manual.
That notation is not specific to git, it’s common in all man pages on Unix.